An animal-rights group has paid for a billboard on I-75 in Detroit to highlight its years of protests against the use of dogs in medical experiments at Wayne State.

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An animal-rights group paid for a billboard on I-75 in Detroit to highlight its years of protests against the use of dogs in medical experiments at Wayne State University.

The billboard, which went up this week overlooking southbound I-75 at West Grand Boulevard, was timed to coincide with Friday's meeting of the WSU Board of Governors, said Dr. Ken Litwak, a staff member of the nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

"We request that Wayne State stop using dogs in cardiovascular research," Litwak told the meeting of university officials. ...